> 'Catalogue...' was praised because (as I
read> somewhere)it seems to be the first attempt to
gather> such a number of comments about works of
crime/mystery> fiction. Maybe this explains why it still appears
in> to-day references (?)

It just seems so random.

> The duo wrote also prefaces to each of the
fifty> "classics" of crime lit reprinted by
Garland> Publishing. A short volume (about 100 pp)
gathers> these prefaces: 'A Book of Prefaces to Fifty
Classics> of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950' - 1976

What are the classics printed in the series?

Juri

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